01 September 2011
ECRE has published a detailed legal analysis of the key provisions of the Amended Commission's proposal to recast the Asylum Procedures Directive published on 1 June 2011.
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Main Theme: International Protection
Keywords: EU directive
17 August 2011
The Netherlands EMN NCP now also has it's own website: www.emnnetherlands.nl
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Main Theme: Migration
03 August 2011
Every month, the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons publishes a document containing the statistics on the asylum applications and the decisions taken.
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Main Theme: International Protection
Keywords: asylum applications
29 July 2011
The Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN) released its newest quarterly report, covering January - March 2011
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Main Theme: Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration, Smuggling & Trafficking, External Dimension
Keywords: border control, Frontex, Lampedusa
28 July 2011
On July 28, 1951, the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees was formally adopted
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Main Theme: International Protection
Keywords: refugee convention, UNHCR
25 July 2011
Migrants from third countries represent around four percent of the total EU population. The
composition of EU's population is thus changing. This leads to new conditions for social cohesion and government response to public concerns.
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Main Theme: Integration
Keywords: Immigrant integration, Social cohesion
20 July 2011
EU leaders on 24 June agreed to establish a "safeguard mechanism" allowing the re-introduction of internal borders in exceptional circumstances
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Main Theme: Migration, Borders & Visa
Keywords: EU Council, Schengen Agreement
20 July 2011
This week 25 refugees from Eritrea and Congo, who got into a deadlock in Libya, arrived in Belgium.
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Main Theme: International Protection, Vulnerable groups
Keywords: Libya, resettlement, UNHCR
06 July 2011
Every month, the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons publishes a document containing the statistics on the asylum applications and the decisions taken.
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Main Theme: Asylum, International Protection
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum statistics
01 July 2011
The Belgian Immigration Office started the SEFOR Project, which aims at ensuring the follow-up of the migrants having received an order to leave the territory, if they are effectively returning to their country of origin, voluntarily or not (SEFOR meaning "Sensibilisation, Follow-up, Return)
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Main Theme: Return & Readmission
Keywords: voluntary return
29 June 2011
The Statistical Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has developed an inventory of information sources and institutions dealing with migration issues. Called migratory, this inventory identifies over 1800 sources located in the UNECE region.
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Main Theme: Migration, Data & Statistics
Keywords: migration statistics, UNECE
24 June 2011
The European Council has launched its virtual Resource Centre on Free Movement & Migration
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Main Theme: Asylum
Keywords: EU Migration Policy
23 June 2011
On June 22, 2011, the Justice Commission found no agreement on the draft bill of several Flemish political parties concerning the tightening of the acquisition of citizenship in Belgium
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Main Theme: Citizenship & Nationality
Keywords: acquisition of citizenship, Belgian Parliament, Naturalisation
17 June 2011
The Council Directive 2003/109/EC has been amended by the Directive 2011/51/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2011 to extend its scope to beneficiaries of international protection
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Main Theme: International Protection, Migration
Keywords: EU directive, Long-term Residents
16 June 2011
EMN presents its synthesis report of the EMN study ‘Satisfying Labour Demand through Migration ’. Source of this publication are the different national studies, carried out in 2010 by the National Contact Points (NCP's) of the EMN.
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Main Theme: Economic migration
Keywords: highly skilled workers, labour policy, labour shortages, low-skilled workers, mobility, work permit
15 June 2011
On 9 and 10 June 2011, the Justice and Home Affairs of the Council of the European Union took place in Luxembourg. On the agenda of the home affairs ministers stood, amongst others, amendments on FRONTEX-rules and the Schengen evaluation of Bulgaria and Romania.
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Main Theme: Asylum, Migration, Economic migration, Borders & Visa
Keywords: Council
15 June 2011
Every month, the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons publishes a document containing the statistics on the asylum applications and the decisions taken.
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Main Theme: Asylum, International Protection
Keywords: asylum applications, asylum statistics
15 June 2011
This final Conference that took place on 15th June 2011 has presented some of the outcomes of research conducted within the framework of the European project Improving EU and US Immigration Systems' Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges: Learning from experiences
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Main Theme: Cross-sectional, Migration
Keywords: EU Migration Policy, immigration policies
01 June 2011
On 1 June 2011, the European Commission presents its revised proposals amending the Directives on Asylum Procedures and on Reception Conditions.
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Main Theme: Asylum, Reception, International Protection
Keywords: asylum procedure, EU directive, reception
01 June 2011
Every month, the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons publishes a document containing the statistics on the asylum applications and the decisions taken.
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Main Theme: Asylum, International Protection
Keywords: asylum statistics, CGRS
01 June 2011
The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (Centre) publishes the English version of its Annual Report on Trafficking & Smuggeling 2009, which was published in French and Dutch in October 2010
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Main Theme: Smuggling & Trafficking
Keywords: smuggling, trafficking, victims of human trafficking
31 May 2011
This ACP-EU Council of ministers addressed questions of migration and discussed progress in the ongoing ACP-EU dialogue on migration. Ministers agreed to reach concrete results to strengthen the operational cooperation in the areas of visa, remittances and readmission over the coming year.
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Main Theme: Migration, External Dimension
Keywords: ACP
25 May 2011
On May 24, 2011, the European Commission presented its proposals for a better managment of migration flows from the Southern Mediterranean region and for amendements to the Visa Regulation
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Main Theme: Migration, Borders & Visa, Irregular Migration
Keywords: EU Migration Policy
20 May 2011
On 19 May 2011, the 14th EU-Russia meeting on justice and home affairs took place in Russia